Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: keyring

[Gilles Dartiguelongue]

Le dimanche 20 avril 2008 à 20:25 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev a écrit :
> On 4/20/08, Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
> > for what it's worth, as a gnome dev I didn't see any convincing
> >  arguments as to why it should be renamed. Gnome makes things optional
> >  for other to reuse (like xfce) but afaik no other "keyring" like
> >  programs are optional deps of another package in portage. Let's not cast
> >  a simple change into breakage for users already using it (even in
> >  stable, and yes I'm lazy :D).
>
> Lazy is the word.
> I cannot argue with this one, I just know that it won't be the gnome
> herd who do the work when the time come to fix this (resolve
> conflict).
> The gnome herd will re-introduce the lazy ticket, and make other herd
> use yet another confusing USE flag.
> This is not the right way to maintain long term constants.

failure, you tried to argue ;)

> You asked for objections... You got some.
>
> You can leave this local USE flag, and stay with generic term.
> Or you can rename it when it goes global so it have proper name.
> You can also ignore this and force gnome onto all users.

Seriously though, when I find stuff to fix, I try to fix it. I just
don't see anything to fix right now.

-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
Gentoo